Brendon聽Ward
Web Geospatial Developer
Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolBrendon Ward is a Web Geospatial Developer with over 16 years of hands-on experience designing, building and operating spatial software for government, mining and research organisations. He combines full-stack JavaScript skills (React, Angular, Node, TypeScript) with deep GIS expertise (ArcGIS, spatial ETL, Python geoprocessing and SAP鈥揋IS integration) to deliver production-grade mapping and asset management solutions. Brendon has led technical teams and vendor/infrastructure procurements, translating complex business processes into pragmatic technical requirements and architectures. He contributes to open-source geospatial tooling鈥攊mproving front-end UX and data upload flows in the widely used TerriaJS platform鈥攄emonstrating a focus on usability and data interoperability. Comfortable from sensor-to-portal, he blends a marine geoscience background with practical experience in serverless cloud backends and real-time 3D web mapping.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Marine Geoscience, BSc, Marine Geoscience at The University of Western Australia
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
react10
3d9
catalog9
data-set8
data-model8
user-data8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
TerriaJS/terriajs
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
A library for building rich, web-based geospatial 2D & 3D data platforms.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 20 commits, 23 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Brendon primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and data upload functionality within the TerriaJS library. They introduced the ability to add data from URLs and load Terria JSON files. Their work included modifying existing React components, adding new data types, and updating tests to account for these changes. They also addressed linting and formatting issues, ensuring code quality and maintainability.
3ddata-platformgeospatialjavascriptterriajs
sixlighthouses/electorate
Apr 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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